As a rebellious young woman in the oppressive China of the 1920s and ’30s, Chinese feminist author Xie Bingying unbound her feet, escaped an arranged marriage, served as a soldier in two wars, lived ...

Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the U.S., urges the public to view poetry as a reminder of their shared humanity in this captivating lecture, which she delivered at the Library Continue reading » The ...

Xie Bingying (謝冰塋) is well-known in Taiwan. Born in 1906 in a small village in Hunan Province (so small that her daughter and son-in-law have been unable to locate it), she came here in 1948 and ...